Process for making draw curtains



Nov.' 25, 1924- J. WACHTEL y PROCESS FOR MAKING DRAW CURTAINS Filed Oct. 19. 1920 of the curtain between the shirring.

Patented Nov. 25, 1924.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH WACHTEL, OF NEW YORK,A N. Y.

PROCESS FOR MAKING DRAW CURTAINS.

Application led October 19, 1920.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JosnPH VACHTEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, .have invented a certain new and useful Process for Making Draw Curtains. of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invent-ion relates more particularly to a class of draperies.

When the present forms of draw curtains for windows and elsewhere are made two or more spaced parts of each curtain are shirred lengthwise by being stitched in rows to provide successive curved folds crosswis great deal of time and the exercise of the greatest accuracy are required to accomplish the stitching so that the stitching of all the rows correspond for a slight variation of the stitching of one row from the others frequently results in a large loss by reason of the curtain being practically worthless should there be any irregularity of the folds, in which event the formation of the curtain will also be irregular. Since curtains of this class are largely made of expensive materials, such as silks or satins a resort to ripping the stitching to correct a mistake is impractical, because of the liability of the ripped stitches and impressions of the adjacent shirring being plainly observable, and therefore the damaged curtain must be vreplaced with another made of undamaged material.

My invention has for its object primarily to overcome these objections by dproif'iding a process for making draw curtains wherein the liability of stitching and shirring the curtains irregularly is reduced to a minimum as well as greatly facilitating the work by saving the consumption of time, besides permitting the curtains to be made by persons exercising ordinary careful workmanship, instead of requiring highly skilled labor. This is accomplished by providing a process which mainly consists of applying on curtain material two or more strips each divided lengthwise into equal given measurements, and also dividing the curtain material lengthwise into equal measurements each of twice the length of the length of each measurement of each strip so that when the material and strips are stitched together the part of the material of the curtain between each consecutive. measurement will be Serial No. 418,015.

shirred during the stitching process to the consecutive measurements of each pair of the stri as. lVhen two or more spaced strips are thus applied to the material inaccuracy of making a draw curtain will 'seldom occur, and the work of making will also be greatly facilitated.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully de scribed with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication iu which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will then be pointed out in the'claim at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure l is a front -elevation of one form of draw curtain made according to my process.

Fig. 9. is an enlarged fragmentary view showing part of one of the strips employed in making the curtain.

Fig. 8 isan enlarged fragmentary view showing a port-ion of the curtain material, and

Fig. l is a rear elevation of the curtain when completed.

To practice the process embodying my invention I provide two or more corresponding strips, as l0, which may be of cloth or other suitable flexible material of the required lengths in which the curtain is made. and all of the strips are similarly divided lengthwise into equal given measurements, for example, eachstrip may be divided int-o single inches, as 11. The curtain material, as 12, which may be of silk, satin or other fabric is provided in an appropriate width, while the length of the material is twice the length of each of the strips 10. lVhen making a curtain the strips are applied singly or in one or more pairs to the material, as shown in Fig. 4L, or three strips or any odd number of the strips may be used, as .occasion requires. The strips of each curtain are disposed in spaced parallel relation on one face lengthwise of the curtain material as well as being equally spaced apart, one at each edge of the material with the other strips disposed at equal spaces therebetween so that when the strips and material are stitched together the material adjacent to each strip is shirred, as at 13, to provide transverse folds, as let, between each strip and the next adjacent Strip.

In order to enable the shirring to be accurately accomplished so that the rows of folds -will substantially correspond and so that l.the completedcurtain vwill be of true formation, 'l divide the lengthwise edges of the curtain material together with the spaced parts of the material between its edges to which the strips are applied into equal given measurements, as at` 15, Fig. 3. Each measurement of the curtain material is preferably ofltwice the length of each measurement of each strip, that is, when inches are adopt-ed to indicate theI measurevments each `row of measurements of the material is divided into two inches. The strips may belapplied to the'curtain material singly by arranging one ofthe strips on one of the rows 15at one of the edges of the material so that the upper edge'of thelirst inch of the stripv conforms with the upper `l etlgeof the'first two inch measurement of the material. During the 'st-itching of the vstrip and materialtogether the material, is `shirr'ed by Ibeing puckered so that the inaterial embraced -in the first two inches in the row will 'be stitched tothe first inch of the strip. rllhe party of the material em- #braced'inthe second two inches of the row .two inches .of the material is similarly shirred and stitched to each successive inch of the strip. Another 'strip is then shirred and stitched to the next contiguous row of measurements of the curtain material in a 4manner like the application of the rst strip, and the other rows of measurements lof the material are shirred and stitched to 4the other strips by employing a similar The divisional lines of the measA lof the measurements 15 of the material serve vas guides, as 17, so that by manipi'ilating the material duringA the Shirring and stitching process whereby each consecutive guide 1 6 of each strip overlaps yeach successive guide 17'of' the material thereundertlie curbodied the preferred form of my invention,

but'l. do *not wish to be understood `as limiting myself thereto las I am aware thatinodi# ications may be made therein without dei parting'from tlieprinciple or sacrificing any off the advantages of this invention, therefore l reserve to myself the right to malte such changes as fairly -fall within the scope thereof. V v

Having thus described' my invention, I claim'as new and'desireto secure by Letters Patent :e- Y v Y ln the process of nrakinga draw curtain, that step which consists ofstitching lengthwise on the ycurtain material spaced parallel flexible strips all of onehalf'the length of the curtain material, each strip having throughoutl its length equii'listant measurementlines and-the cuit-ainfmaterial-lraving spaced rows of equidistantmeasurement vlines throughout itsflength, the lspaces between the measurement .lines of the material being twice thezlength ofthe spaces-between thev measurement lines of the strips'and forming folds in the curtain material between the `strips by Vmoving the material during the stitching so that the successive measurement lines vof all of its rows will aline with the successive measurement'lines lof all ofthe strips.

This specification signed vand witnessed this 18 day 'ofjOctober A. l). 1920.

' yJCSEPH WTLALOHTEL.. llVitne-sses:

'Jl FRANK/ I J.Fisnniiicii' Cernia. 

